The ultimate high: Sexual addiction and the bug chasing phenomenon

David A. Moskowitz; Michael E. Roloff

doi:10.1080/10720160601150121

The ultimate high: Sexual addiction and the bug chasing phenomenon

David A. Moskowitz^*, Michael E. Roloff

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This study sought to explain the existence of a controversial subculture of gay men, a group whose main attribute is an active desire to voluntarily contract HIV. The following research reasons "bug chasing" as being symptomatic of sexual addiction. A quasi-randomized survey of personal advertisements of HIV-negative bug chasers and barebackers - gay men who intentionally eschew condom use without the desire to seroconvert - revealed that chasers were: (a) considerably different from their barebacker counterparts regarding paraphiliac activities, and (b) significantly more likely than barebackers to rank higher on behavioral and psychological measures of sexual addiction.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	21-40
Number of pages	20
Journal	Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10720160601150121
State	Published - Jan 1 2007

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